Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician, 18th President of France (born 1890)

Charles de Gaulle

French general and statesman (1890–1970)

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France. In 1958, amid the Algiers…

List of presidents of France

The president of France is the head of state of France, elected by popular vote for five years.